Former Beaumont/Orange area high school football players to lace up cleats again

Here is a press release from Texas Alumni Football, a company that organizes football games for former high school players.

Texas Alumni Football is coming to the Beaumont/Orange area and giving a second chance to former high school players from local schools and will be putting the pads on again with former teammates to comprise up to 24 alumni teams. The games are open to all alumni and the ages of the players will likely range from nineteen to mid-forties. Alumni teams will play an alumni team from their rival school.

Most former high school football players never thought they would play again. “You don’t just play pickup games of full contact football when you graduate. For many guys, football is the biggest thing in the world in high school and then it’s taken away forever. People tell us all the time about how they’ve literally dreamed about the chance to play again” says Tim Bishop, Director of Texas Alumni Football.

Based in Austin, Texas Alumni Football has organized over 100 alumni games in Texas since they began in Jan of 2010. The alumni games have been popular with players and fans. “We’ve heard from several towns that the biggest crowd they ever had was for the alumni game,” says Bishop.

Local communities enjoy a rare opportunity to watch their former gridiron stars in action again. Schools benefit by having the opportunity to re-engage alumni and to gain financially. “We raised over $3,000 for our Project Graduation through the alumni games and it was an overall very positive event for our community,” said Larry Lee, Crane Schools ISD Superintendent.

Texas Alumni Football is now organizing alumni games for the following schools:

Bridge City Jasper Silsbee

Buna Kirbyville Vidor Burkeville Kountze West Hardin

Colmesneil Little Cypress-Mauriceville West Orange-Stark

Deweyville Lumberton West Sabine

Evadale Nederland Woodville

Hamshire-Fannett Newton

Hardin-Jefferson Port Neches-Groves

Hull-Daisetta Saratoga

Former players can sign up at www.AlumniFootballUSA.com or call Paul Saunders at (512) 360-7731. Also on www.AlumniFootballUSA.com, fans and players can link to individual team Facebook pages to discuss and reminisce about rivalries, players, games and other high school memories.